The advantages of this audio format are significant: it can switch between various codecs depending in how much bandwidth it has at its disposal and it is perfect for interactive audio applications, such as VoIP, in-game chat, videoconferencing, and remote live music performances. It is flexible and it adapts to both low bit-rate narrowband speech and to high-quality stereo music.

The features of this codec suggest us that Opus Audio Codec has all the assets of a reliable piece of software for optimal audio rendering:

- support for speech, music, mono and stereo, and for up to 255 channels; audio bandwidth from narrowband to fullband; support for both constant bit-rate (CBR) and variable bit-rate (VBR); bit-rates from 6 kb/s to 510 kb/s, sampling rates from 8 kHz (narrowband) to 48 kHz (fullband); frame sizes from 2.5 ms to 60 ms, dynamically adjustable bitrate, audio bandwidth, and frame size and good loss robustness and packet loss concealment (PLC).